Next year sees Chevrolet celebrating the 50-year anniversary of the original COPO Camaro. Naturally, Chevy intends to celebrate the occasion and has not one, but two models to mark the date.

We’ve already covered the first, a classic quarter-mile pony car. The other is a little different. It’s still a Camaro, and it’s still built for 1320 feet at a time, but it doesn’t have an engine…

Chevrolet calls it the eCOPO, and that should be a bit of a clue. It’s fully electric, with two motors delivering power to the rear live axle through the “race-prepped” automatic transmission. It’s dressed to impress, and with more than 520kW (that’s 700hp+ to the rest of us) and 600lbft of torque, it means business. Chevy reckons the eCOPO can run the quarter mile in about nine seconds.

Power comes from an 800V battery pack divided into four modules. Two occupy the space where the rear seats would be, while a second pair sits in the trunk. That gives the eCOPO a 44:56 weight bias, so there’s plenty of traction for a full-bore launch.

GM’s head of motorsports, Russ O’Blenes, teased the chances of offering electric crate motors in future.

“The possibilities are intriguing and suggest a whole new world for racers. Chevrolet pioneered the concept of the high-performance crate engine right around the time the original COPO Camaro models were created, and the eCOPO project points to a future that could include electric crate motors for racing, or even your street rod. We’re not there yet, but it’s something we’re exploring.”

This may be a concept, but who knows what it holds for the future? Color us intrigued!